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Personal info

Full name
HILLIER, Leslie James
Date of birth
1916
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
20118690
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
313th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
26 May 1945
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 29 33

Immediate family

Members
Albert W. Hillier (father)
Winifred E. (James) Hillier (mother)
Alma L. (Davis) Hillier (wife)
Beverly A. Hillier (daughter)
Leslie J. Hillier (son)

More information

Pfc Leslie J. Hillier attended high school for four years and was a clerk before he enlisted at Fort Devens, Massachusetts on 10 March 1944. He was sent overseas in August 1944.

He died in a general hospital to the effects of artillery shell fragments to his hip and buttock. The exact date when he was reported wounded in action and the location where he was wounded are not known.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Muller Morgan Tree of Life / Massachusetts Birth Index / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, Combat History 79th Infantry Division, www.newspapers.com - The Boston Globe, 14 June 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, www.ancestry.com - U.S. School Yearbooks, Boston, Massachusetts